Austral English Part 93
"I remember nothing but a rather curiously shaped gowai-tree."
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See also Lace-lizard.
1802. G. Barrington, `History of New South Wales,' c. viii.
p. 285:
"Among other reptiles were found ... some brown guanoes."
1830. R. Dawson, `Present state of Australia,' p. 118:
"At length an animal called a guana (a very large species of lizard) jumped out of the gra.s.s, and with amazing rapidity ran, as they always do when disturbed, up a high tree."
1864. J. Ropers, `New Rush,' p. 6:
"The shy guana climbs a tree in fear."
1891. Rolf Boldrewood, `A Sydney-side Saxon,' p. 99:
"A goanna startled him, and he set to and kicked the front of the buggy in."
1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 139:
"And the sinister `gohanna,' and the lizard, and the snake."
(q.v.), by the law of Hobson-Jobson.
1849. W. Tyrone Power, `Sketches in New Zealand with Pen and Pencil,' p. 160:
"Engaged in the superintendence of a Maori oven, or a huge gipsy-looking cauldron, called a `go-ash.o.r.e.'"
1877. An Old Colonist, `Colonial Experiences,' p. 124:
"A large go-ash.o.r.e, or three-legged pot, of the size and shape of the cauldron usually introduced in the witch scene in Macbeth."
1879. C. L. Innes, `Canterbury Sketches,' p. 23:
"There was another pot, called by the euphonious name of a `Go-ash.o.r.e,' which used to hang by a chain over the fire.
This was used for boiling."
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(q.v.).
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. The Australian species are--
Black-tailed G.,-- Limosa melanuroides, Gould;
Barred-rumped G.,-- L. uropygialis, Gould.
(q.v.).
-. The following words and phrases compounded with "gold" are Australian in use, though probably some are used elsewhere.
. auriferous.
1890. `Goldfields of Victoria,' p. 13:
"A new line of gold-bearing quartz."
mining or digging for gold.
1880. G. Sutherland, `Tales of Gold. fields,' p. 36:
"There were over forty miners thus playing at gold-digging in Hisc.o.c.k's Gully."
1852. J. Bonwick [t.i.tle]:
"Notes of a Gold-digger."
the desire to obtain gold by digging. The word is more especially applied to the period between 1851 and 1857, the early Australian discovery of gold.
The term had been previously applied in a similar way to the Californian excitement in 1848-49. Called also Yellow fever.
1888. A. J. Barbour, `Clara,' c. ix. p. 13:
"The gold fever coursed through every vein."
district where mining for gold is carried on.
1858. T. McCombie, `History of Victoria, c. xv. p. 215:
"All were anxious to get away for the gold fields."
1880. G. Sutherland, [t.i.tle] `Tales of Goldfields,' p. 19:
"Edward Hargreaves, the discoverer of the Australian goldfields ... received L15,000 as his reward."
. founded as the result of the discovery of gold.
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Miner's Right,' c. ix. p. 91:
"I rode up the narrow street, serpentine in construction, as in all gold-founded townships."
searcher after gold.